Information Technology Task Force

Information Technology Task Force
Abbreviation	ITTF
Type	Standards organization
Purpose	Administration to support the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1
Headquarters	Geneva, Switzerland
Region served	Worldwide
Website	http://www.iso.org/ittf

The ISO/IEC Information Technology Task Force (ITTF) is a body jointly formed by ISO and IEC responsible for the planning and coordination of the work of JTC 1. It has several responsibilities described in the JTC 1 Directives clause 4.1^[1] including:

day-to-day planning and coordination of the technical work
supervising the application of rules
advising JTC 1 on points of procedure
administration of ballots
publishing activities, including the printing, distribution and sale of International Standards

Publishing activities

The ITTF makes a number of International Standards and associated material available for free-of-charge download “for standardization purposes” Some well-known texts so available include:

ISO/IEC 10646 Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)
ISO/IEC 14977 Syntactic metalanguage — Extended BNF
ISO/IEC 19757-2 Regular-grammar-based validation — RELAX NG
ISO/IEC 26300 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0
ISO/IEC 29500 Office Open XML File Formats

References

^ "ISO/IEC JTC 1 Directives, Edition 5, Version 3.0".

External links

ITTF web site
Publicly available standards

[jtc1-directives-1] "ISO/IEC JTC 1 Directives, Edition 5, Version 3.0".

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